Inside the Spiritual Qi Acupoint, Li Yun lay motionless on the ground.
He was barely breathing.
He looked as if he might die at any moment.
But not far away, the ground suddenly rippled like water, and a little radish head poked out of it.
A pair of lively eyes grew on the radish head. They darted about, brimming with slyness.
Half its body had emerged, while the other half and its roots remained buried underground.
From more than ten meters away, it watched Li Yun in silence.
Damn...
Playing dead was the right move. I finally lured this guy out. But why is it so cunning? It's even keeping half its body underground.
Is it ready to flee the moment it senses something wrong?
Li Yun hardly knew whether to laugh or cry.
Still, he was in no hurry.
He pretended to cough. After several forceful coughs, he sat up with a pained look on his face.
Yet that tiny movement startled the Ginseng King so badly that it immediately pulled its newly emerged upper half back underground.
Li Yun caught the movement from the corner of his eye, and his mouth twitched.
Well, would you look at that!
Is it really that timid? That quick to react?
No wonder Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu have tangled with it for over twenty days without catching it. With reflexes like those and its ability to appear and vanish underground, even a Martial Dao Grandmaster might be helpless against it.
Even so,
Li Yun remained patient.
He went on coughing to himself,
his face contorted with pain,
his complexion pale.
If Zhang Shenshu and Xu Ruhai had arrived just then, they would probably have believed he was seriously injured.
A good while passed.
After roughly five minutes, the Ginseng King quietly